The premise, the premise is set, and it will be easy to talk about it later. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But this premise makes Pan Xingnong feel very uncomfortable when the Qi family governs the country and the world, and the Fujian Association here like Chen Jiageng is not very comfortable, although this is not the first time he has heard this kind of words, but if the Japanese really go south, overseas Chinese do have to consider their own back roads. As for the post-war period, who knows what it will be like.

After the afternoon talk, according to the etiquette, Chen Jiageng left Yang Zhangwen and others to eat, and everyone became familiar with each other when they talked, and the relationship between drinking during the meal became more and more harmonious, Zhuo Xianshu was also in the banquet for some reason, he said: "May I ask Commander Li, how many marines are there?" ”

"It's hard to say." During the afternoon conversation, we learned that there are now 2.3 million overseas Chinese in Siam, and 80 percent of them are Chaoshan people. With the addition of French Indochina, the whole Nanyang has the largest number of Chaozhou people except for the Min people. "But more than a million." Li Kongrong said about the number.

"One, a million?!" Not only Zhuo Xianwen, but even Chen Jiageng was surprised, this number Li Kongrong had never said before.

"A million is a lot?" Li Kongrong looked at everyone puzzled, "To make the Japanese surrender, it is impossible to get the Japanese to land on their broken islands without a million people." Of course, this is in a hurry, and half a million is enough if you are not in a hurry. It is not an exaggeration to have more than 10 million overseas Chinese and 1 million soldiers, and besides, there are not 1 million people who actually fight. ”

"An army of a million, there are ...... Are there so many officers? "Zhuo Xianwen wants to say that there is so much money, but Chen Jiageng is on the side, and the navy will turn stones into gold, he is afraid that everyone will laugh if he asks this.

"Officer? Pretty much. The construction of the Marine Corps is not the same as the domestic forces. Li Kongrong put down his chopsticks. Country. The army, especially the officer corps of the Central Army, attaches great importance to political education, and there are soldiers from all over the world, everywhere. The Marine Corps will not be like this, and now all overseas Chinese in North America are arranged in one division, called the North American Division, and the supplementary source of troops will only be North American Chinese, and people from other places are generally not arranged to be there.

Because of the small number of overseas Chinese in North America, the organizational advantages cannot be reflected. It's a different story here in Nanyang. For example, ......, Premier Yang is from Chao'an, so let's take Chao'an as an example. When the army is formed, all overseas Chinese of Chao'an origin will be organized into a division or an army, and the establishment will of course be organized according to the army, and the division and regiment companies will be arranged at six levels, but the overseas Chinese themselves will also be organized. If there are 50,000 overseas Chinese soldiers from Chao'an, they can be organized into an army, aren't you worried about officers? No problem, the commander of the Chao'an Army is Premier Yang, and his brothers, cousins, and nephews are division commanders, regiment commanders, or battalion commanders. ”

"What?!" As soon as Yang Zhangwen's hand was raised, the chopsticks fell to the ground, he was a cloth businessman, usually enthusiastic about public welfare, so he was elected as the prime minister by everyone, how did he become a military commander of 50,000 people as soon as he turned around. "Commander Li, this is absolutely unacceptable, I can't hold a knife steadily, how can I be a military commander?"

"Don't panic, don't panic." Li Kongrong said with a smile. "Of course, the navy knows that Premier Yang does not understand military affairs, so when the time comes, it will hire some professional military staff officers, who will be responsible for the combat plan, and Premier Yang can make a decision. Fighting a war and doing business is actually one thing, the key is decisiveness. Officers below the battalion commander level were trained by the Accelerated Military Academy, and the Whampoa Military Academy was only nine months old, and it was still mainly based on political education. Except for three months of military training, half a year is enough for officers below the battalion commander to achieve quick results, and the technical arms are a little troublesome, many of which take a year or two, but there is no way to do it, and they have to catch ducks on the shelves. ”

There are military staff officers around him, and there are military cadets below the regiment commander who are better than the Whampoa Military Academy, so everyone here is greatly relieved. Zhuo Xianshu seemed a little disappointed, and he said: "It is not difficult for low-level officers, the key is that professional staff officers are difficult to find." ”

"It's hard to find. It is very simple for Britain and the United States to send thousands of staff officers over, and it is not difficult to find translators, and there are many students in Nanyang who can speak English. I believe that as long as there are sufficient troops, a million-strong army can be formed in two years, with about 50 divisions of about 12,000 men each, and the rest will be logistics support units. Li Kongrong said that he thought of the dog eating murder and defrauding money, and added:

"Only in such an army, soldiers and soldiers are true brothers, the commander loves his subordinates, his subordinates support the commander, and no one withholds the salary. Would you withhold money from your own family? You will only save as much money as possible to meet the needs of your family, but the money is not yours, it is the family, and it is left to do great things. Only such an army will not collapse if it loses the battle, this is your cousin, that is your cousin, and then the one is your grandfather according to generation. After losing the battle, will you leave them alone and run away? You won't, because that's home. You will only run to the place where the company headquarters is, the company headquarters will only run to the regimental headquarters, and the regimental headquarters will only run to the division headquarters and the army headquarters. Premier Yang is not only the commander of the Chao'an Army, he is also the patriarch of the Chao'an overseas Chinese, and he is the safest by his side. If you don't stay with the patriarch, you can save your life by running somewhere else?

You are a fourth-term student of Huangpu, and I don't need to tell you about the situation of the Central Army. When there is no war, it is very united, and if the political education of the officers who are replenished after the war does not keep up, it is a mess. In addition, there is no reserve system, and the recruits who are replenished are everywhere, so what does it matter to the commander whether they are dead or alive? For officers, it is important to save their lives, earn money, and be promoted to officers. Is it important to fight a war? It doesn't matter at all, if you can't stay any longer, you can spend money to buy an appointment and leave. Can such an army win battles? Can you rely on it? If this is reliable, the sow will go up the tree. ”

Li Kongrong was sarcastic and spicy, Zhuo Xianshu's face was flushed, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat. Chen Jiageng and Yang Zhangwen, who had just dropped his chopsticks, were thinking about the kind of army described by Li Kongrong, if this was really feasible, they might really be able to lead troops to the battlefield.

"Commander Li, this seems to be ...... with the Xiang Army" Lin Ziming thought for a moment and thought of the Xiang Army, he felt that the Xiang Army seemed to be like this.

"Yes, this is the Hunan army, and the same is true of Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army at the end of the Ming Dynasty." Li Kongrong nodded. "The Hunan army is actually an army formed with Hunan rural scholars as the backbone and Hunan farmers as flesh and blood. The Hunan army was defeated again and again at the beginning, and Zeng Guofan committed suicide by diving several times, but no matter how defeated the Hunan army, it did not collapse. However, it does not mean that a strong army can be built anywhere like this, and the place where the army can be built is very particular. Hunan is a mountainous area, and the peasants are naturally good infantrymen, and the local people are simple, pragmatic, grouped, and xenophobic, so that the officer corps can be united, and will not dismantle the Taiwan and fight among themselves, let alone betray each other.

In this respect, the Teochew people have an advantage, because Teochew is more xenophobic than Hunan. I'm more worried about the two premises I talked about in the afternoon. Why did the Hunan army fight, the first was to take revenge, and the Taiping army crossed north from Hunan; The second is to repay the service, kill thieves for the country, and there is the ambition of Confucianism to govern the country and level the world. The navy doesn't need to serve anyone, the navy only fights for itself, but I'm worried that some people can't see it, just like the Hakka people, they like to be officials the most, and this has been the case since the Tang and Song dynasties.

If an officer gives a military order that should not be given in order to curry favor with the Chongqing government or any other government, and sacrifices his subordinates who should not be sacrificed, the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Department defines this as 'brothers and brothers', and he will not only be executed, but also his wife and children, and the Navy will not tolerate such a person. Unless it is decided by the Navy General Command that it wants to help Chongqing. ”

"Isn't it okay to fight the Japanese?" Zhuo Xianshu couldn't help but ask, he didn't participate in the negotiation in the afternoon, and he didn't know what the premise was.

"The Navy has been fighting against the Japanese." Li Kongrong looked at him. "But it doesn't matter if the Navy hits the Japanese and Chongqing hits the Japanese. The navy fights the navy, Chongqing fights Chongqing, as a naval officer, what is the reason why you lead people to Chongqing? ”

"We're all one family, so why bother with each other." Pan Xingnong also spoke out, "You can't win in China......"

"The navy and the country are not a family, and even the military flags are different." Li Kongrong mentioned the military flag, which is the most conspicuous feature of each other's family. "Besides, whether the country can't win is the fate of the country, what does it have to do with overseas Chinese? Will 40,000,000 people be saved by 10,000,000? Why can't they save themselves? ”

"In many parts of the country, there is not even enough to eat, how can they save themselves?" Pan Xingnong said again. During the afternoon talks, he had the most opinions, especially opposing Li Kongrong's distinction between domestic and foreign.

"If you really can't even eat enough, it won't be too bad if you fall into the hands of the Japanese, at least the Japanese will make a show of giving relief to the hungry, so that they can take some photos to show the beauty of Greater East Asia." Li Kongrong said with a smile. "As I said in the afternoon, my principle has always been 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs' -- people with bad fate, bad luck, and people who make mistakes by themselves will die when they die, and this is something that cannot be helped, and this is the will of God. You have to sacrifice those who have not made mistakes to save them, no matter how you look at it, it is against heaven. The result of going against the sky is retribution, and in the end, everyone dies together. I'm not going to do that, and the Navy isn't going to do it. ”

Seeing that Li Kongrong brought out the sentence 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs', Pan Xingnong was no longer able to reiterate 'the old and the old, the young and the young', but he turned his face and said that Li Kongrong was too ruthless.

Li Kongrong's ruthlessness made the banquet a little cold, and Yang Zhangwen, who had just been said to be a military commander, deliberately said some light topics, Li Kongrong still talked and laughed, only Pan Xingnong was sullen, and Zhuo Xianshu was silent. At more than nine o'clock in the evening, Yang Zhangwen and others said goodbye in laughter. They are only here to find out the attitude of the navy, whether or not to join the group, how to join the group, the Bangkok Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry has to discuss repeatedly, this is not a few personnel, this is the matter of the three million overseas Chinese in Chaozhou.

Tin Fu Palace is on the seaside, where coconut groves stand and the sea breeze is pleasant, and Chen Jiageng smiled when he walked: "I think the Teochew guy will come." The kind of army you are talking about is the addiction that I have also thought about as a military commander. ”

"The army is too hard, there are a lot of epidemics, and with wars, any accident can happen. Mr. Jiageng doesn't need to join the army, he can't be a general. Li Kongrong also felt that the Chaozhou people would come, but the number of people was not accurate.

"Am I 'will'? Haha, no, no, no. Chen Jiageng laughed, "I'm afraid I can't even tell the difference between a gun and a cannon." ”

"Just tell the difference. The first is to recognize the situation, and then to know people and make good use of them, which is not much different from management shops. Guns are the business of the front-line generals, and they have little to do with the commander-in-chief. Li Kongrong said. Didn't you say that you will return to China in March to offer condolences, and you can take this opportunity to take a look at the situation in China. ”

The condolences for returning to China were decided last year. Speaking of this, Chen Jiageng groaned, and he said: "Zhang Chukun gave me a book of westward travel written by a famous American journalist and suggested that I go to Yan'an to have a look. ”

"A journey to the west?" Li Kongrong smiled, "I know, the English name is Red.Star.Over.China, written by Edgar Snow." His own stance was pro-communist, and he wrote the book after the interview in Yan'an. ”

"Americans are also pro-communist?" Tan Kah Kee was surprised, he had thought that only the Soviet Union and China had communist parties.

"Yes, very many, especially journalists and literati, many of whom receive funds for the United Front in Moscow, like the Left League in China. Or if you control the newspaper editor, you can't publish your article if it's not pro-left. Li Kongrong explained.

"Is that okay? So how many people are they going to buy? Tan Kah Kee could not have imagined such a thing, and he believed that the position of newspapers, especially big newspapers, should be neutral and must seek truth from facts.

"Don't buy many people." Li Kongrong said, "If you get the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, then the hundreds of reporters and literati who make a living from this newspaper will all be done." If you are a rightist literati and your wife and children are hungry, will you scold the Communist Party? For example, Zhang Chukun is problematic, and his columns are all leftist positions. ”

"But he said he wasn't a communist." Chen Jiageng stopped, he didn't know that Li Kongrong's purpose in saying this was to kick out Zhang Chukun and prevent him from staying in Nanyang Daily.

"The Communist Party is very smart, and some people can't do their jobs well after joining the party, so they can't join the party. There are many such people in China, such as Shen Junru in the Seven Gentlemen, a non-partisan civil rights activist like him, who uses up thousands of yuan a day, and this money is all given by the Comintern. If he joins the Communist Party, it will be inconvenient for him to carry out his activities. Li Kongrong said. The Communist Party is a world problem, and the Soviet spy organization Comintern is a world organization, and they know that the Chinese often blindly worship foreigners, so they often transfer the white Communist Party to China. Put the articles they wrote in front of you, you see, foreigners say so, and then the local rightists are dumbfounded. They do have some admiration for foreigners, and they don't know that there are many more communists and whites among foreigners than Chinese. ”

"Hehe......" Chen Jiageng smiled, he hadn't read the book yet, and when he saw that it was written by a famous American reporter, he wrote three points about the content of the book, but he didn't expect it to be exported to domestic sales, a fake diorama. He smiled and said: "Han Sheng, I heard you say that leftists and rightists, what is leftism and what is rightism?" What is the Communist Party again? ”

The question of "this ......" is really difficult to answer, Li Kongrong thought for a while and said: "Let's put it this way: those who ask others to pay for everyone to eat, or who ask others to give up their legitimate interests to fulfill everyone, are leftists, and those who oppose this are rightists." The Communist Party is all about taking someone else's money and saying that it is going to distribute the one who can feed everyone, and the left is their natural ally. ”

"Asking others to pay for everyone's food...... Chen Jiageng said silently, "So the rightists are a dime a dime a dime?" ”

"It can't be said that the rightist will give food to relatives and friends, to his fellow villagers, and to those who have been displaced to his doorstep, but there are always boundaries and limits to charity, he will not support African refugees who have nothing to do with it, he will not lend money to Cuba that he has never been to, and he will not let outsiders eat meat and relatives drink porridge, but the left believes that the more support, the greater, and the result is that the diligent will not eat, and the lazy will sit back and enjoy the results.

In the final analysis, the rightists are Darwinian believers, who believe in natural selection, survival of the fittest, and believe in the way of heaven. If you don't have enough to eat, it may be that you have a bad life, you were not born in the land of fish and rice, and natural disasters are continuous, or you are lazy and gambled, and you can't save money; Or maybe you don't dare to fight hard every time you fight, and the harvest is snatched away by others every year, so people like you deserve to starve to death.

The leftists believe that this man died unjustly, and they are compassionate and humane. If the place is too poor and the rich should go to help, everyone can't be unkind to the rich, and there are frozen bones on the road; If you are lazy and do gambling, you will lose because someone is exploiting and calculating, and the surplus value of his labor is all earned by the capitalists, so he is so poor; Fights can't be fought, and the harvest is robbed every year because everyone is not peace-loving, and the tiger pulls out all the teeth and changes to grass, and the rabbit is safe. ”

The image that Li Kongrong said, Chen Jiageng nodded and smiled: "So Hansheng, you are a rightist?" ”

"It's not that I'm a rightist, it's that I have to be a rightist, otherwise I can't be responsible for everyone." Li Kongrong sighed. "I don't have a choice."